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Lane: openreposhape-5 (openRepoShape-5)
Claim: #758 (comment)

Against main. #748 landed as 431c8cf8; this branch merged #748's final head and main (see Fix round 1). After that merge, #723 (bad05d21) and #746 (fc867207) landed. The branch is refreshed over main fc867207 as 4a553e17, one merge commit. Its only conflict was tests/test_non_utf8_git_reads.py's from conftest import block, resolved by keeping both sides' names, as rv818 asked. The merged tree differs from main in #818's own 27 files, and #818's count scan flags no file. Tests only: 25 files under tests/, no shipped code, no pinned file, no README, handbook, AGENTS.md or docs/cli.md change.

Fix round 1: the retarget onto main, and rv818

Two new commits on b6e15591: the retarget merge 2908e46f, then the fix commit eaa72d9e. Tests only, as before.

The retarget: merge commit 2908e46f

#748 landed as 431c8cf8 from its final head 8368d1f8, and GitHub moved this PR's base to main. The merge commit has three parents: b6e15591, 8368d1f8 and main fa04d2cd. #748's head goes in first, so git sees the history the squash dropped.

• tests/conftest.py: one helper builds the url.<file URI>.insteadOf rewrite that clone_just_pushed, read_through_git and the adopt tests' pasted each built, and the empty-mount submodule update --init sites use it (#662) #748's head did not merge clean, as rv818 found. tests/test_adopt_empty_symlinks.py conflicts, because 8368d1f8 holds main 741679e7, which carries adopt-project.py check passes a source whose tree holds a symlink whose target begins with a NUL byte (\0spec.md, a 120000 blob of size 8), so with symlinks on execute creates both leg repositories and then fails cloning the source, exit 2 with nothing on stderr, and #303's plan-empty-symlink, which tests the blob's size, does not find it #388.
  • I took w758's earlier resolution of that file, which rv818 checked. Main's side of the file is the same at 974d4827, 8368d1f8 and fa04d2cd, so it still fits.
  • Both sides stay: adopt-project.py check passes a source whose tree holds a symlink whose target begins with a NUL byte (\0spec.md, a 120000 blob of size 8), so with symlinks on execute creates both leg repositories and then fails cloning the source, exit 2 with nothing on stderr, and #303's plan-empty-symlink, which tests the blob's size, does not find it #388's two targets (with_each_target, SAID, the target parameters) and tests: PASTE_ENV in tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py is an import-time snapshot that overwrites GIT_CONFIG_COUNT, seven tests hand-build the same append beside appended_to_command_scope, and six git clone --no-local calls build clone_just_pushed's options by hand #758's symlinks_off(), built at the call.
  • test_the_link_given_a_target_adopts_end_to_end calls symlinks_off() too. Git does not flag it, and left as it was the file fails at collection.
• Main then conflicted in three files (main was d17564d9 when I resolved them): tests/test_clone_just_pushed.py, tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py and tests/test_family_bump_remove_rollback.py.
  • Main's copy of each was 8368d1f8's byte for byte.
  • This branch's copy is 8368d1f8's plus tests: PASTE_ENV in tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py is an import-time snapshot that overwrites GIT_CONFIG_COUNT, seven tests hand-build the same append beside appended_to_command_scope, and six git clone --no-local calls build clone_just_pushed's options by hand #758's own hunks, so this branch's side is taken.
  • Main's next two landings, family.py init: the creator is asked whether a file can hold it whichever of --created-by, GIT_AUTHOR_NAME or git config user.name gave it, git is asked about the first commit's author and committer before the remote exists, and a --family that is a Windows device name is refused, --dry-run alike (#688) #809 and family.py: add, bump and remove name a bisect, an empty rebase directory, sparse rules that hold no pattern, a merge conflicted in family.yaml and a members file HEAD holds and the work tree does not as what each is, with the way out that works there, and refuse a family.yaml holding a change HEAD does not (#684) #816, merged with no conflict.
• rv818 MUST 1. tests/test_local_remote_dir_urls.py came with family.py and scaffold-project.py: add --local-remote-dir refuses a member clone URL .gitmodules cannot hold as text, --dry-run alike, each clone-URL remedy names a link's target and a lone surrogate, and the READMEs quote the clone URL, so the line under a b/ pastes as one command (#693) #812 and imported ALLOW_FILE_PROTOCOL from test_family.
  • Without a change, the file fails at collection: ImportError: cannot import name 'ALLOW_FILE_PROTOCOL' from 'test_family', and none of its 27 cases run.
  • It now imports allow_file_protocol and calls pasted(lines, paste, allow_file_protocol()).
  • git grep finds no other file on main that uses a name tests: PASTE_ENV in tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py is an import-time snapshot that overwrites GIT_CONFIG_COUNT, seven tests hand-build the same append beside appended_to_command_scope, and six git clone --no-local calls build clone_just_pushed's options by hand #758 removes (SYMLINKS_OFF, SYMLINKS_ON, CONFIG_COUNT, CONFIG_VALUE, PASTE_ENV, ALLOW_FILE_PROTOCOL). NO_MAINTENANCE, QUOTE_PATH_OFF and tool_env change shape, and each is used only in its own file.
• Checked:
  • Against main, the merged tree differs in tests: PASTE_ENV in tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py is an import-time snapshot that overwrites GIT_CONFIG_COUNT, seven tests hand-build the same append beside appended_to_command_scope, and six git clone --no-local calls build clone_just_pushed's options by hand #758's 25 files and in tests/test_local_remote_dir_urls.py.
  • Each of the 25 differs by exactly tests: PASTE_ENV in tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py is an import-time snapshot that overwrites GIT_CONFIG_COUNT, seven tests hand-build the same append beside appended_to_command_scope, and six git clone --no-local calls build clone_just_pushed's options by hand #758's own added and removed lines, tests/test_adopt_empty_symlinks.py aside.
  • Collecting the whole suite at the head finds 12,320 tests and no error.

The fix commit eaa72d9e

• SHOULD 2: configure in tests/test_adopt_reencoded_files.py, the seventh append from tests: PASTE_ENV in tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py is an import-time snapshot that overwrites GIT_CONFIG_COUNT, seven tests hand-build the same append beside appended_to_command_scope, and six git clone --no-local calls build clone_just_pushed's options by hand #758's line 2, now sets what appended_to_command_scope(os.environ, pairs) returns. It gives the same entries in the same order, so no test can fail on the old form.
• SHOULD 3: the scan also reads a name the module binds to "GIT_CONFIG_COUNT" (CONFIG_COUNT = "GIT_CONFIG_COUNT", annotated or not) as the count. It does so in a dict key, a setter's first argument and a subscript.
  • rv818's repro: append the base's two lines to tests/test_adopt_root_symlinks.py.
  • The old scan passes. The new one names line 2137.
• SHOULD 4: counts_set_to_a_number is split into one reader per node type: in_a_dict, in_a_call and by_subscript. The walk takes each node's reader from READERS. By hand, no function scores more than 5 on S3776. I could not run Sonar.
• NIT 5: conftest.py is no longer skipped. It scans clean, at the head and on today's main.
• NIT 6:
  • New "sees" cases: os.putenv("GIT_CONFIG_COUNT", "1") and a bare setenv("GIT_CONFIG_COUNT", "1").
  • The walk is now files_off_their_count(directory). A new test runs it over a folder of its own, and checks three things:
    • conftest.py and a helper module are read;
    • a .txt file is not;
    • a file OWN_COUNTS allows is named for fewer counts as well as for more.
  • Four of rv818's six surviving mutants now fail a case: putenv dropped, the bare-name setter dropped, != changed to >, and glob("test_*.py").
  • The fifth, conftest.py scanned, is now how the code works, and putting the skip back fails the new test.
  • The sixth, the count's value taking any string, still survives: it is a stricter scan. Git refuses a count that is not a number (bogus count in GIT_CONFIG_COUNT, exit 128), so a test that holds one fails on its own.
• NIT 7, in part:

  • An empty count ("") is now a count of its own. Git 2.43 and 2.47.1 read it as no entries at all. Measured: GIT_CONFIG_COUNT= GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0=a.b GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0=c git config --get a.b exits 1.

  • The docstring says the scan reads the count's value as a constant only.

  • Left out:

    • a value built by a call (str(len(pairs))) or held in a variable;
    • an int;
    • dict(), or environ={} by keyword, handed to the helper;
    • setenv with keyword arguments;
    • an annotated subscript.

    rv818 judged only str(len(entries)) likely, and telling it from a count worked out needs what the call means, not how it is spelled.

• NIT 8: the paste case deletes GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS first. Measured on the merge before the fix commit, with GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS="'probe.param'='p'", the case failed (Left contains one more item: 'probe.param=p'). It passes now.
• NIT 9, left as it is: main's three appends built by hand each work the count out right: tests/test_family_head_lost_gitmodules.py:97, tests/test_family_bootstrap_gate_order.py:135 and tests/test_family_add_spellings_remedies.py:137. Each of those files is also changed by another open PR (family.py add: the move back of a member's gitlink points its section of .gitmodules back, sets aside first what the index holds in its way and puts back a member whose removal is staged, its closing mv is guarded and leaves a checkout to delete by hand, and --sparse follows the sparse rules, so no printed line leaves a section naming another spelling or un-registers a member (#761) #828 fix/761-add-move-back-gitmodules, validate-family.py: the wrong-case move back mends .gitmodules, adds --sparse and moves an entry in the way aside, a row's staged removal and a url-less section are findings, and two refusals name a cure that works (#762) #820 fix/762-validate-family-remedies-texts, fix/763-holder-docs-agree), so converting them here would only add conflicts.
• NIT 10: the comment on NO_MAINTENANCE now says its maintenance.auto and gc.auto repeat the session's two, which reach these gits in the command scope. Only gc.autoDetach adds a setting. The two stay, so the constant alone still keeps maintenance off for these gits.
• NIT 11: the count was in lane 5's docs/release-notes/v1.0.0.md: the v1.0.0 release notes, a draft for Brett to amend before he tags, saying what 1.0 contains and promises, how to pin it by commit, what changed on the way grouped by the five tracking areas, and every known limit as the input that triggers it and what the person sees (#472) #473 summary, not in this body. The seven sets held 2,401 distinct passes, not 2,609: the 208-test run repeats three files of the 256-test run.

Tests at eaa72d9e

All runs went through run9.sh, with the real gh unreachable. All passed, none skipped:

• The 26 test files the PR changes against main, in one full-file run each: 2,206 passed (1,108 + 1,098).
  • These are tests: PASTE_ENV in tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py is an import-time snapshot that overwrites GIT_CONFIG_COUNT, seven tests hand-build the same append beside appended_to_command_scope, and six git clone --no-local calls build clone_just_pushed's options by hand #758's 24 test files, tests/test_local_remote_dir_urls.py and tests/test_adopt_reencoded_files.py.
  • The count matches the collection exactly.
• The 43 files that import any of those 26, with tests/test_repo_hygiene.py, tests/test_agents_md_codes.py and tests/test_cli_reference.py: 1,646 passed (825 + 821).
• The same merge made on main d17564d9 (a local commit, c16a7e1a, never pushed), before the fix commit: tests/test_local_remote_dir_urls.py and tests/test_no_auto_maintenance.py, 55 passed.

Fails on the base

The new tests were run against the base's scan and walk, as b6e15591 has them, with GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS set: 6 failed, 30 passed. The six:

• the paste case;
• the nothing, a-name-bound-to-it, an-annotated-name and a-name-by-subscript cases;
• the walk test.

The three other new cases (a-bare-setenv, putenv, a-name-bound-to-another-key) are there to kill mutants, and they pass on any correct scan. MUST 1 fails on main's form at collection, as above. SHOULD 2 and NIT 10 change no behaviour.

Mutants

I made 26 mutants. 25 are caught, and one survives as rv818 said it would:

• 22 on the scan and the paste case, each run against tests/test_no_auto_maintenance.py:

  • the delenv dropped;
  • putenv dropped from SETTERS, or the bare-name setter;
  • the name branch of is_the_count dropped, or any name taken as the count;
  • "" no longer a count;
  • the Assign names dropped, or the AnnAssign names;
  • no names collected;
  • each reader ignoring the names;
  • each of the three readers dropped from READERS;
  • conftest.py skipped;
  • != changed to > or to <;
  • glob("test_*.py"), or glob("*");
  • by_subscript taking any value;
  • the walk pointed at an empty folder.

  The last passes on a clean tree, like any change to an assertion that nothing is found. It is caught by rv818's SHOULD 3 repro, where the real walk fails and the mutant passes.

• The survivor: the count's value taking any string. It makes the scan stricter (see NIT 6).

• configure: with appended_to_command_scope({}, pairs), the scan names the file. With the pairs dropped, three of its tests fail.

• MUST 1: main's import put back fails collection with ImportError.

Merge checks at eaa72d9e

I ran git merge-tree --write-tree against origin/main (fa04d2cd) and the 53 other fix/* and l3-* heads on origin:

• Clean: origin/main and 43 heads.
• shape-doctor.py: a path that is not ASCII is printed as that path in every NEXT, keep line and WHY, as itself where the report's encoding writes its bytes and escaped whole where it does not, so a line naming Projets/Équipe or a Latin-1 name runs as printed (#785) #792 (l3-785-non-ascii-paths) merges clean, but tests/test_doctor_non_ascii_paths.py imports PASTE_ENV. Whichever PR lands second changes :50 (the import), the :266 docstring and :268 to paste_env().
• tests: one skip helper for names and branches that are not UTF-8, Windows guards on make_file and the --branch a\udcffb test by emulation, and the UTF-8 promise and the leg finding's role pinned (#663) #723 (fix/663-non-utf8-name-tests), bump-leg.py: the branch is read in full and pushed as refs/heads/<b>:refs/heads/<b>, dirty names are spelled, committed lists what git holds, and the dry run says it runs no validator (#672) #746 (fix/672-bump-leg-branch-and-push-line, which now holds tests: one skip helper for names and branches that are not UTF-8, Windows guards on make_file and the --branch a\udcffb test by emulation, and the UTF-8 promise and the leg finding's role pinned (#663) #723) and tests: four tests, directory_named and the file twin ask the one helper whether a name that is not UTF-8 can be made and skip on its two answers only, and three tests skip where an ASCII file name encoding cannot carry their text (#757) #806 (fix/757-non-utf8-test-dirs) conflict only in the from conftest import block of tests/test_non_utf8_git_reads.py (and of tests/test_adopt_git_reads.py, for tests: four tests, directory_named and the file twin ask the one helper whether a name that is not UTF-8 can be made and skip on its two answers only, and three tests skip where an ASCII file name encoding cannot carry their text (#757) #806). Both sides add names, so keep them all.
• Seven heads conflict with main itself, not with this PR:
  • l3-732-latin1-section and l3-733-ignored-sections (tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py);
  • fix/712-validate-pins-contracts, fix/766-spelled-paths and fix/798-adopt-legs-asked-first;
  • l3-677-pins-hand-step-wip and l3-678-naming-checkout-wip.
• I scanned each clean merged tree's changed test files for a name tests: PASTE_ENV in tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py is an import-time snapshot that overwrites GIT_CONFIG_COUNT, seven tests hand-build the same append beside appended_to_command_scope, and six git clone --no-local calls build clone_just_pushed's options by hand #758 removes, or a count the scan flags. Only shape-doctor.py: a path that is not ASCII is printed as that path in every NEXT, keep line and WHY, as itself where the report's encoding writes its bytes and escaped whole where it does not, so a line naming Projets/Équipe or a Latin-1 name runs as printed (#785) #792 shows up.
• Main moved after the push. tests: one skip helper for names and branches that are not UTF-8, Windows guards on make_file and the --branch a\udcffb test by emulation, and the UTF-8 promise and the leg finding's role pinned (#663) #723 landed as bad05d21, and the two now conflict in one place: the from conftest import block of tests/test_non_utf8_git_reads.py. The fix is to keep both sides' names: ORG, PROJECT, REPO, appended_to_command_scope, cloned_just_pushed, git, run_script, skip_message, skip_where_fsencode_gives_a_surrogate_no_byte, windows_fsencode. Every other change merges in. On that merged tree, with the block resolved that way, the scan flags no file, and no file uses a name tests: PASTE_ENV in tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py is an import-time snapshot that overwrites GIT_CONFIG_COUNT, seven tests hand-build the same append beside appended_to_command_scope, and six git clone --no-local calls build clone_just_pushed's options by hand #758 removes.

Line 1: PASTE_ENV (measured, not only read)

On deb029c9 a probe test imported PASTE_ENV and pasted git config --show-origin --list through paste():

• PASTE_ENV held GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=1 (protocol.file.allow), a stale GIT_CONFIG_KEY_1=user.email left from collection, and no GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL.
• os.environ at the call held a count of 4 and the session's global file.
• The pasted git listed one command-line entry, protocol.file.allow=always, and git config --get maintenance.auto exited 1. So a pasted line ran with git's automatic maintenance on, in both scopes, as the issue said.

paste_env() replaces it. It reads os.environ at each call (minus PYTHONPATH), adds the identity and PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, and appends protocol.file.allow with appended_to_command_scope. The six uses call it. The import-time copy also predated the session's gh guard on PATH, as test_doctor_next_is_a_command.py's docstring says of its own environment; a pasted line now gets the PATH of the call. That docstring now says paste_env() reads at the call too.

Line 2: the appends built by hand, and the counts set by hand

• The seven. Six are on this base, each now one call to appended_to_command_scope: test_adopt_git_reads.py, test_adopt_nested_attributes.py, test_adopt_ignored_shape_files.py, test_adopt_root_symlinks.py, test_bootstrap_after_bump.py, test_family_bump_remove_rollback.py. The seventh, test_adopt_reencoded_files.py, came with adopt-project.py: check asks this machine's git what the split stores for each file the plan keeps or moves and each pinned copy, so one it would store as other bytes no longer passes check and fails after both legs exist (#654) #743 and is converted in fix round 1. test_clone_just_pushed.py:96 stays, as the issue says: it is the helper's own test.
• The other literals. Each sets a count of its own and is laid over os.environ, where the session's two settings and the Windows job's two sit, so each replaced them (NO_MAINTENANCE put the two maintenance keys back and dropped the job's two). I read each; each is converted, none left:
  • test_family.py: ALLOW_FILE_PROTOCOL is now allow_file_protocol(); its two importers (test_siblings_family_name.py, test_family_siblings_placement.py) and the four uses in test_family.py call it.
  • test_family_dry_run.py: NO_MAINTENANCE is a tuple of entries, appended by isolated().
  • test_non_utf8_git_reads.py: QUOTE_PATH_OFF is a tuple of entries, which tool_env() appends; user_name() appends too.
  • test_adopt_empty_symlinks.py: SYMLINKS_OFF is symlinks_off().
  • test_adopt_root_symlinks.py: SYMLINKS_OFF and SYMLINKS_ON are gone; the four tests that set the first call links_as_files and the two that set the second call told_git, which already appended.
  • one-off environments: test_scaffold_reuse_seeded_legs.py, test_adopt_split_branch.py, test_scaffold_free_text_values.py, test_adopt_plan_yaml_quoting.py, test_setup_project_py.py, test_setup_sh.py, test_doctor_next_is_a_command.py.
  • The two tests that build a held environment on purpose to see it kept (test_adopt_git_reads.py, test_clone_just_pushed.py) now build it with appended_to_command_scope({}, ...).

Line 3: the six git clone --no-local calls, per call

Measured with a probe on a throwaway bare remote after a push (18 loose objects): the hand-built options and clone_just_pushed's give the same clone, one pack and no loose object, with upload-pack and pack-objects in GIT_TRACE, and origin keeps the plain path. A plain local clone of the same remote keeps all 18 loose objects. For a clone that is not recursive the helper's insteadOf rewrite is inert, because no submodule is cloned; the helper adds one place for the options, not a different read.

• test_bump_leg_dry_run_truth.py:98, the private bare copy of the session's spec remote: a session remote. cloned_just_pushed(..., bare=True); the fixture now asserts the copy is bare.
• test_bump_leg_dry_run_truth.py:110, private_work, a clone of that private remote, which tests push tags into: cloned_just_pushed(..., recurse=False).
• test_doctor_legs_members_next.py:1828 and :1929, Ghost, a clone of the first member's checkout in the test's own holder copy: not a remote, and the hand-built -c protocol.file.allow=always was dead weight on a direct clone. Both call clone_member, one helper over cloned_just_pushed(..., recurse=False) that asserts the legs stay empty.
• test_family_bump_to_checks.py:235, a clone of a_private_remote, a bare repository filled by a push: cloned_just_pushed(remote, work, "main", recurse=False, env=env).
• test_doctor_pin_restore_merges.py:714 is left as it is: a --filter=blob:none clone of a file URI. The helper takes a path, and has no way to pass --filter.

The two comments (the issue's last comment)

• test_family_dry_run.py: the comment on NO_MAINTENANCE says what the entries are for, the gits isolated() hands an environment to, whose global file excluding() replaces, and that the session fixture covers the module's own setup commits, which pass no env=.
• tests/conftest.py: the two i645 replacements, "repacks once its estimate, taken from objects/17 alone, is above 256 loose objects, so two loose objects there are enough", and the objects changed sentence. tests/conftest.py: the session turns git's automatic maintenance off, in command scope and in a global config that includes the person's own, so a copytree of a fixture no longer meets a detached repack deleting its loose objects (#645) #713's body holds the matching sentence and needs the same two replacements; I cannot edit a body.

Tests

tests/test_no_auto_maintenance.py has 17 new cases (28 in the file, 11 before):

• test_a_pasted_line_keeps_the_entries_the_environment_holds_at_the_call: the environment holds two entries as the Windows job does, then the two settings as the session fixture appends them, set after the doctor tests were imported. git config --show-origin --list through paste() lists the four, in order, then protocol.file.allow, and reads both settings from the session's global file.
• test_no_test_sets_a_git_config_count_of_its_own: reads every tests/*.py but conftest.py with ast and fails a GIT_CONFIG_COUNT set to a number (dict, keyword, setenv/setdefault/putenv, subscript) and an appended_to_command_scope call handed a dict written out. Three files are allowed the ones that build a held environment on purpose, with a count each in OWN_COUNTS.
• 15 cases that hold the scan itself: seven spellings it must see, eight it must leave (env.get("GIT_CONFIG_COUNT", "0") is a read).

Runs at the head b6e15591 through run9.sh (the real gh unreachable), all passed, none skipped:

• test_no_auto_maintenance.py, test_doctor_legs_members_next.py, test_doctor_next_is_a_command.py: 208 passed.
• test_clone_just_pushed.py and test_doctor_validator_rows.py (it imports the doctor file), with those three: 256 passed, run one commit earlier (the later commit only moved two blank lines and reworded one failure message).
• The sweep files: test_adopt_git_reads.py, test_adopt_nested_attributes.py, test_adopt_root_symlinks.py, test_adopt_ignored_shape_files.py, test_bootstrap_after_bump.py, test_family_bump_remove_rollback.py, test_adopt_empty_symlinks.py, test_adopt_split_branch.py: 445 passed.
• test_non_utf8_git_reads.py, test_family.py, test_siblings_family_name.py, test_family_siblings_placement.py, test_scaffold_reuse_seeded_legs.py, test_scaffold_free_text_values.py, test_adopt_plan_yaml_quoting.py: 999 passed.
• test_family_dry_run.py, the five files that import its isolated (test_family_bump_to_a_tag.py, test_family_bump_to_checks.py, test_family_bump_to_local_only.py, test_family_refuse_up_front.py, test_family_remove_gitmodules.py) and test_bump_leg_dry_run_truth.py: 216 passed.
• test_setup_project_py.py, test_setup_sh.py and their importers (test_adopt_shape_pin_and_work_dir.py, test_dry_run_asks_remotes.py, test_clone_url_bytes.py, test_setup_by_hand_commands.py): 313 passed.
• test_repo_hygiene.py, test_agents_md_codes.py, test_cli_reference.py, test_doctor_pin_restore_merges.py, test_git_helper_identity.py: 172 passed. render-cli-reference.py --check is ok.

On the base (deb029c9), with the new test_no_auto_maintenance.py copied in: 2 of the 17 fail, the paste case and the scan (it finds 12 files). The other 15 hold the scan itself and pass on any tree.

Mutants

Each of the new hunks was broken in a throwaway and run against its tests:

• paste_env: a literal count of 1, a snapshot taken at import, and appended_to_command_scope({}, ...): each fails the paste case, and the first and third the scan too.
• The 18 sites that call appended_to_command_scope(os.environ, ...) (or env), each with {} in place of the environment: each fails the scan. Sites: the six of line 2, allow_file_protocol, isolated, tool_env, user_name (non-UTF-8), symlinks_off, git_reads_github_from, github_at, user_name (free text), test_adopt_plan_yaml_quoting.py, the two setup tests, test_doctor_next_is_a_command.py.
• The scan: eight changes (ignore dicts, keywords, setenv calls, subscripts, appended_to_command_scope({}; flag os.environ; flag a read; allow fewer in OWN_COUNTS) each fail a scan case.
• The clone sites: dropping bare=True from the private remote, recurse=False from clone_member, and "main" from the checks clone each fail. Two survive as equivalents: recurse=False in private_work (the spec leg has no .gitmodules, so a recursive clone of it is the same clone) and env=env in the checks clone (a clone reads no config the isolated environment changes).
• The two comments cannot be mutated.

Merge checks

git merge-tree --write-tree of this head against origin/main (974d4827), #748 (deb029c9), #713 (979bb394) and every fix/* and l3-* head on origin (46 refs):

• Clean: tests/conftest.py: one helper builds the url.<file URI>.insteadOf rewrite that clone_just_pushed, read_through_git and the adopt tests' pasted each built, and the empty-mount submodule update --init sites use it (#662) #748, tests/conftest.py: the session turns git's automatic maintenance off, in command scope and in a global config that includes the person's own, so a copytree of a fixture no longer meets a detached repack deleting its loose objects (#645) #713, and 24 of the 46 heads: 21 fix/* heads (every lane-5 PR but tests: one skip helper for names and branches that are not UTF-8, Windows guards on make_file and the --branch a\udcffb test by emulation, and the UTF-8 promise and the leg finding's role pinned (#663) #723 and setup-project.py: a project name typed at the prompt is checked as --project is and an empty line says no name was typed, so ../x, a/b, .. and --help are refused by name, not by an --id hint, a help page or a probe write (#729) #756, and most of lane 4's) and l3-677, l3-678, l3-rehearsal-v1.1.0.

• origin/main: one file, tests/test_adopt_empty_symlinks.py (four hunks), against adopt-project.py check passes a source whose tree holds a symlink whose target begins with a NUL byte (\0spec.md, a 120000 blob of size 8), so with symlinks on execute creates both leg repositories and then fails cloning the source, exit 2 with nothing on stderr, and #303's plan-empty-symlink, which tests the blob's size, does not find it #388's landing (5c990708). The parent tests/conftest.py: one helper builds the url.<file URI>.insteadOf rewrite that clone_just_pushed, read_through_git and the adopt tests' pasted each built, and the empty-mount submodule update --init sites use it (#662) #748 merges clean, so this arrives with the retarget. Resolve by keeping main's lines and my symlinks_off(). Two more spots need the same change and git does not flag them:

  • tests/test_adopt_empty_symlinks.py::test_the_link_given_a_target_adopts_end_to_end uses SYMLINKS_OFF, which this change removes: give it the off parametrization.
  • tests/test_adopt_reencoded_files.py::configure, the seventh hand-built append, goes to appended_to_command_scope(os.environ, pairs).
  • tests/test_family_head_lost_gitmodules.py::on_disk (on main) is one more hand-built append: {**env, **appended_to_command_scope(env, [("core.ignorecase", ignorecase)])}. The scan does not read for hand-built appends, so it is not required, but it is the same thing.

  I made that merge in a scratch tree (main at bf1f099b), resolved it as above, and ran the files this change touches that main also changed, with test_adopt_empty_symlinks.py, test_adopt_reencoded_files.py, test_family_head_lost_gitmodules.py, test_no_auto_maintenance.py and the files that import isolated or the doctor helpers: 653 and 245 passed, in two runs. The scan finds no other file of main's with a count set by hand.

• tests: one skip helper for names and branches that are not UTF-8, Windows guards on make_file and the --branch a\udcffb test by emulation, and the UTF-8 promise and the leg finding's role pinned (#663) #723 (fix/663-non-utf8-name-tests): tests/test_non_utf8_git_reads.py, the from conftest import block, where both add names.

• l3-732, l3-733: tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py (the from conftest import block) and tests/test_adopt_empty_symlinks.py.

• 19 more (fix/664, fix/729 (setup-project.py: a project name typed at the prompt is checked as --project is and an empty line says no name was typed, so ../x, a/b, .. and --help are refused by name, not by an --id hint, a help page or a probe write (#729) #756) and 17 l3-* heads): tests/test_adopt_empty_symlinks.py only, because they carry main's adopt-project.py check passes a source whose tree holds a symlink whose target begins with a NUL byte (\0spec.md, a 120000 blob of size 8), so with symlinks on execute creates both leg repositories and then fails cloning the source, exit 2 with nothing on stderr, and #303's plan-empty-symlink, which tests the blob's size, does not find it #388 as main does.

• Not a textual conflict, but it breaks on merge: l3-785-non-ascii-paths imports PASTE_ENV (tests/test_doctor_non_ascii_paths.py:47 and :223); it must call paste_env(). family.py and scaffold-project.py: add --local-remote-dir refuses a member clone URL .gitmodules cannot hold as text, --dry-run alike, each clone-URL remedy names a link's target and a lone surrogate, and the READMEs quote the clone URL, so the line under a b/ pastes as one command (#693) #812 (fix/693-local-remote-dir) landed first, with tests/test_local_remote_dir_urls.py importing ALLOW_FILE_PROTOCOL (:51, :349). This PR's retarget merge makes it call allow_file_protocol() (rv818 MUST 1).

Left out, and checklist candidates

• A pasted git submodule update --init still clones a local path: paste() takes no remotes, so no insteadOf rewrite reaches it (rv662's "build it from read_through_git"). It runs under the session's maintenance settings now, which is what the issue asks.
• Three more appends built by hand beside appended_to_command_scope, in files this base does not hold: tests/test_family_head_lost_gitmodules.py:97 (main), tests/test_family_bootstrap_gate_order.py:135 (bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: a member no credential would check out fails the family bootstrap, every row's gitlink is asked before any checkout, and --no-members prints the case-variant move (#648) #682), tests/test_family_add_spellings_remedies.py:137 (family.py add: a members/ renamed with git mv is renamed back in two steps through a free name, after what the disk lacks under it is put back, and a printed --sparse says the git it needs, so no remedy fails as typed (#685) #767). The scan reads for counts set to a number, not for appends worked out by hand.

Closes #758

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Summary by Sourcery

Preserve inherited Git command-scope settings across the test suite while strengthening coverage against configuration overrides.

Bug Fixes:

• Preserve existing Git command-scope configuration when tests add temporary Git settings, including pasted doctor commands and Windows-specific entries.
• Ensure test helpers and clone scenarios retain session maintenance settings and other inherited Git configuration.

Enhancements:

• Centralize test environment configuration through command-scope append helpers and replace static configuration snapshots with call-time environments.
• Add hygiene checks that detect test code which overwrites GIT_CONFIG_COUNT instead of appending to inherited entries.
• Consolidate local clone setup behind the existing clone helper while preserving bare and non-recursive clone behavior.

Tests:

• Expand maintenance and environment tests to cover pasted commands, configuration-count detection, inherited settings, and helper behavior.

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Reviewer's Guide

This tests-only change fixes configuration leakage in the test suite by constructing Git command-scope environments at call time and appending test-specific entries to the settings already present, updates pasted-command and clone helpers accordingly, and adds regression plus AST-based enforcement coverage to prevent future replacements.

File-Level Changes

Change	Details	Files
Make test-created Git command-scope configuration append to the environment’s existing entries instead of replacing them.	Replace hand-built GIT_CONFIG_COUNT dictionaries and mutations with appended_to_command_scope(os.environ, ...) or equivalent call-time helpers. Convert reusable configuration constants into entry tuples or functions so session and Windows-job settings are preserved. Update symlink, file-protocol, maintenance, quoting, identity, URL-rewrite, and setup-test environments across the affected tests.	tests/conftest.py tests/test_adopt_empty_symlinks.py tests/test_adopt_git_reads.py tests/test_adopt_ignored_shape_files.py tests/test_adopt_nested_attributes.py tests/test_adopt_plan_yaml_quoting.py tests/test_adopt_root_symlinks.py tests/test_adopt_split_branch.py tests/test_bootstrap_after_bump.py tests/test_doctor_next_is_a_command.py tests/test_family.py tests/test_family_bump_remove_rollback.py tests/test_family_dry_run.py tests/test_non_utf8_git_reads.py tests/test_scaffold_free_text_values.py tests/test_scaffold_reuse_seeded_legs.py tests/test_setup_project_py.py tests/test_setup_sh.py tests/test_siblings_family_name.py
Build pasted-command environments at execution time so they inherit current PATH and Git configuration state.	Replace the import-time PASTE_ENV snapshot with paste_env(). Append protocol.file.allow after the entries currently held by os.environ for each pasted Git command. Apply the same call-time environment behavior to the doctor-next interactive shell helper and update related documentation.	tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py tests/test_doctor_next_is_a_command.py
Centralize selected local-clone behavior through cloned_just_pushed and preserve the intended bare, branch, and nonrecursive semantics.	Use the helper for the private bare remote and its work clone. Use clone_member for direct member clones while asserting legs remain empty. Convert the family checks clone to the helper with its main branch and nonrecursive options, while retaining the filtered clone that needs unsupported options.	tests/test_bump_leg_dry_run_truth.py tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py tests/test_family_bump_to_checks.py
Add regression coverage and an AST-based repository guard against losing inherited Git configuration.	Verify pasted commands retain Windows-job and session-maintenance entries while appending their own setting. Scan test sources for numeric GIT_CONFIG_COUNT assignments, literal command-scope dictionaries, and appenders given empty dictionaries. Allow only deliberate environment-construction cases and add self-tests for the scanner’s accepted and ignored patterns.	tests/test_no_auto_maintenance.py
Clarify maintenance-related test assumptions and expected object-repack behavior.	Document the Git 2.54 loose-object estimate and the observed objects-changed failure. Document that the maintenance fixture and scanner protect inherited command-scope settings.	tests/conftest.py

Possibly linked issues

• tests: PASTE_ENV in tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py is an import-time snapshot that overwrites GIT_CONFIG_COUNT, seven tests hand-build the same append beside appended_to_command_scope, and six git clone --no-local calls build clone_just_pushed's options by hand #758: The PR implements issue tests: PASTE_ENV in tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py is an import-time snapshot that overwrites GIT_CONFIG_COUNT, seven tests hand-build the same append beside appended_to_command_scope, and six git clone --no-local calls build clone_just_pushed's options by hand #758 by building paste environments at call time, appending Git settings, updating clone helpers, and adding regression checks.

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(lane openRepoShape-2, 2026-10-17T16:41:50Z) Independent review of #818 (#758) at b6e15591, for lane openRepoShape-5: NOT READY

The head is right on its base deb029c9. All 25 touched test files pass at the head: 1,993 tests. On the base, the new paste case and the new scan fail, as the body says. It is NOT READY for one reason: once it is merged with main, a test file main gained can no longer import, and the body names the wrong PR to fix it. That fix, and most of the rest below, belong in the retarget commit.

MUST

1. Main's tests/test_local_remote_dir_urls.py stops importing once this lands.
   • The file came with family.py and scaffold-project.py: add --local-remote-dir refuses a member clone URL .gitmodules cannot hold as text, --dry-run alike, each clone-URL remedy names a link's target and a lone surrogate, and the READMEs quote the clone URL, so the line under a b/ pastes as one command (#693) #812 (cbff780c, now on main 24a977c0). It imports ALLOW_FILE_PROTOCOL from test_family at :51 and uses it at :349.
   • tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py and 24 other files: tests append what they tell git to the GIT_CONFIG_COUNT entries the environment holds, so a pasted line keeps the session's maintenance settings and the Windows job's two (#758) #818 replaces that name with allow_file_protocol() (tests/test_family.py:75).
   • Repro: merge tests/conftest.py: one helper builds the url.<file URI>.insteadOf rewrite that clone_just_pushed, read_through_git and the adopt tests' pasted each built, and the empty-mount submodule update --init sites use it (#662) #748's 8368d1f8 with main 24a977c0 (clean), then merge b6e15591 into that. Git flags only tests/test_adopt_empty_symlinks.py. Importing the file then fails with ImportError: cannot import name 'ALLOW_FILE_PROTOCOL' from 'test_family', so all 12 of its tests fail at collection.
   • The body says fix/693-local-remote-dir "must call allow_file_protocol()". family.py and scaffold-project.py: add --local-remote-dir refuses a member clone URL .gitmodules cannot hold as text, --dry-run alike, each clone-URL remedy names a link's target and a lone surrogate, and the READMEs quote the clone URL, so the line under a b/ pastes as one command (#693) #812 has landed first, so tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py and 24 other files: tests append what they tell git to the GIT_CONFIG_COUNT entries the environment holds, so a pasted line keeps the session's maintenance settings and the Windows job's two (#758) #818 is now the second lander, and the change is tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py and 24 other files: tests append what they tell git to the GIT_CONFIG_COUNT entries the environment holds, so a pasted line keeps the session's maintenance settings and the Windows job's two (#758) #818's to make.
   • Fix, in the retarget merge: change the import to from test_family import (FAMILY, SPARE, allow_file_protocol, family, family_module) and the call to pasted(lines, paste, allow_file_protocol()). Then correct "Merge checks" in the body.
   • With this change and the body's resolution for tests/test_adopt_empty_symlinks.py, the landing tree passes: 10 files, 521 passed, this file included.

SHOULD

2. The seventh hand-built append from tests: PASTE_ENV in tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py is an import-time snapshot that overwrites GIT_CONFIG_COUNT, seven tests hand-build the same append beside appended_to_command_scope, and six git clone --no-local calls build clone_just_pushed's options by hand #758's line 2 is still there on the landing tree.

   • tests/test_adopt_reencoded_files.py:102-109 (configure) still works out held by hand.
   • No conflict forces this change, and the scan does not look for hand-built appends. So Closes #758 would close the issue with one of its listed lines undone.
   • Fix, in the retarget: for name, value in appended_to_command_scope(os.environ, pairs).items(): monkeypatch.setenv(name, value).

3. The scan misses a count whose key is held in a variable, and the base used exactly that spelling.

   • is_the_count (tests/test_no_auto_maintenance.py:349) matches only the string constant "GIT_CONFIG_COUNT".
   • On the base, tests/test_adopt_root_symlinks.py:190-194 had CONFIG_COUNT = "GIT_CONFIG_COUNT" and then SYMLINKS_OFF = {CONFIG_COUNT: "1", ...}. The scan does not flag it: it is not among the 12 files the scan reports on the base.
   • Repro: append those two lines to tests/test_adopt_root_symlinks.py at the head. test_no_test_sets_a_git_config_count_of_its_own still passes.
   • Fix: collect the names the module binds to "GIT_CONFIG_COUNT", treat an ast.Name with one of those names as the count, and add a "sees" case for it.

4. S3776: counts_set_to_a_number (tests/test_no_auto_maintenance.py:372) scores about 17 by hand under Sonar's rules; the limit is 15.

   • The count:
     • for: 1
     • if: 2
     • two elifs: 2
     • two nested ifs at depth 2: 6
     • six and sequences, three of them in comprehension filters: 6
   • I could not run Sonar.
   • Fix: one small function per node type (Dict, Call, Assign), with the walk adding up their lines.

NIT

5. The conftest.py skip (:449) buys nothing and leaves a gap.

   • conftest.py scans clean, at the head and on the landing tree.
   • The skip does let a count be set there: appending _PROBE = {"GIT_CONFIG_COUNT": "1"} to tests/conftest.py passes the scan, while the same line in tests/gh_guard.py is caught.
   • Fix: drop the skip.

6. Six of my 18 one-line mutants of the scan survive:

   • putenv dropped from SETTERS. No case covers it, though the docstring and the body name it.
   • The check for a bare-name setter call dropped.
   • != changed to > in the OWN_COUNTS comparison.
   • glob("*.py") changed to glob("test_*.py").
   • conftest.py scanned too (equivalent at this tree).
   • is_a_number accepting any string (a stricter scan).

   Fix: add os.putenv("GIT_CONFIG_COUNT", "1") and setenv("GIT_CONFIG_COUNT", "1") cases.

7. Other spellings the scan does not see, beyond item 3:

   • a count built by a call: str(1), f"{1}", str(len(pairs));
   • a count held in a variable;
   • "";
   • an int;
   • appended_to_command_scope(dict(), ...), or environ={} by keyword;
   • setenv(name=..., value=...);
   • an annotated subscript.

   Only str(len(entries)) is likely to occur, in a new helper that counts from nothing. The docstring could say the scan reads constants only.

8. The paste case's exact list (:321) fails if GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS is set around the run, for example pytest started under git -c ... rebase --exec.

   • paste_env() passes that variable on, and git lists its entries as command line: after the count's.
   • Measured: the pasted git listed protocol.file.allow=always and then probe.param=p.
   • Fix: monkeypatch.delenv("GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS", raising=False).

9. Main holds three more hand-built appends that do not go through the helper: tests/test_family_head_lost_gitmodules.py:97, tests/test_family_bootstrap_gate_order.py:135 and tests/test_family_add_spellings_remedies.py:137.

   • Each works the count out correctly.
   • The body called them "not on this base". All three are on main now, so converting them in the retarget is optional.

10. NO_MAINTENANCE (tests/test_family_dry_run.py:93): the new comment is true, but the constant is now mostly a repeat.

    • Now that it appends, its gc.auto and maintenance.auto repeat the session's two, which already reach the same gits through the command scope. Only gc.autoDetach adds anything.
    • i645 called the constant redundant (NIT 3 in 741679e7).
    • Fix: say so in the comment, or drop the two keys.

11. "2,609 passed across seven sets" counts three files twice. The 208-test run is part of the 256-test run, which was made one commit earlier.

Checked and true

• Line 1 of tests: PASTE_ENV in tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py is an import-time snapshot that overwrites GIT_CONFIG_COUNT, seven tests hand-build the same append beside appended_to_command_scope, and six git clone --no-local calls build clone_just_pushed's options by hand #758.

  • PASTE_ENV is gone. All six uses call paste_env(), which builds the environment at the call.
  • On deb029c9, with the head's tests/test_no_auto_maintenance.py copied in: 2 failed, 26 passed. The two failures:
    • the paste case, which saw ['protocol.file.allow=always'] alone;
    • the scan, which flagged 12 files.
  • Both pass at the head.

• The append helpers.

  • Outer environment holding GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=2, two pairs and a stale KEY_5:
    • paste_env() gives count 3, with protocol.file.allow at KEY_2;
    • git lists the two outer entries, then protocol.file.allow;
    • git ignores KEY_5, which is past the count.
  • A non-numeric count raises ValueError in the helper; git itself exits 128 with bogus count in GIT_CONFIG_COUNT. That helper is tests/conftest.py: the session turns git's automatic maintenance off, in command scope and in a global config that includes the person's own, so a copytree of a fixture no longer meets a detached repack deleting its loose objects (#645) #713's and is unchanged here.
  • Setting the scope twice (told_git true, then false) gives both entries, in order, and git reads false.
  • Two appends computed from the same base and merged into one dict would collide. No site here does that; I checked sib, siblings, tool_env/user_name, and isolated with configured.
  • When both are set, git reads the count's entries first and GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS after them, so a -c outranks a count entry (measured).

• Every converted one-off environment is laid over os.environ, so appending from os.environ is the right base: run_entry, run_bare_setup, run_script, raw, fake_gh and offline.

• The clone sites.

  • Five calls go through cloned_just_pushed: four places, with clone_member serving two of them.
  • On a throwaway remote, the old and new forms gave the same clone for the bare, plain and -b main cases:
    • one pack and no loose object;
    • the same refs and HEAD;
    • origin still the plain path.
  • Leaving :714 (a --filter clone) as it is is right: the helper's config goes before clone, so it cannot pass a clone option.

• The conftest comment matches i645's text in 741679e7: objects/17, 256, two loose objects, and objects changed with 37 objects packed into two. It leaves out i645's other trigger, packs out of geometric order, so it is partial but not false.

• Merges.

  • The merge with tests/conftest.py: one helper builds the url.<file URI>.insteadOf rewrite that clone_just_pushed, read_through_git and the adopt tests' pasted each built, and the empty-mount submodule update --init sites use it (#662) #748's 8368d1f8 is not clean: tests/test_adopt_empty_symlinks.py conflicts. This is because tests/conftest.py: one helper builds the url.<file URI>.insteadOf rewrite that clone_just_pushed, read_through_git and the adopt tests' pasted each built, and the empty-mount submodule update --init sites use it (#662) #748 merged main through 741679e7, which carries adopt-project.py check passes a source whose tree holds a symlink whose target begins with a NUL byte (\0spec.md, a 120000 blob of size 8), so with symlinks on execute creates both leg repositories and then fails cloning the source, exit 2 with nothing on stderr, and #303's plan-empty-symlink, which tests the blob's size, does not find it #388.
  • The body's resolution for that file is right. I applied it, and it passes. That includes the SYMLINKS_OFF in test_the_link_given_a_target_adopts_end_to_end, which git does not flag; left as it is, the whole file fails at collection.
  • Merging main directly also conflicts in conftest.py, and add/add in test_no_auto_maintenance.py, because tests/conftest.py: the session turns git's automatic maintenance off, in command scope and in a global config that includes the person's own, so a copytree of a fixture no longer meets a detached repack deleting its loose objects (#645) #713 landed as a squash. Take tests/conftest.py: one helper builds the url.<file URI>.insteadOf rewrite that clone_just_pushed, read_through_git and the adopt tests' pasted each built, and the empty-mount submodule update --init sites use it (#662) #748's update first.

• The scan on the landing trees (with main, and with lane 3's shape-doctor.py: a path that is not ASCII is printed as that path in every NEXT, keep line and WHY, as itself where the report's encoding writes its bytes and escaped whole where it does not, so a line naming Projets/Équipe or a Latin-1 name runs as printed (#785) #792 on top) flags only the three allowed files. None of main's code is flagged.

• Lane 3's shape-doctor.py: a path that is not ASCII is printed as that path in every NEXT, keep line and WHY, as itself where the report's encoding writes its bytes and escaped whole where it does not, so a line naming Projets/Équipe or a Latin-1 name runs as printed (#785) #792 (26d61255) merges onto the landing tree with no conflict. Whichever PR lands second must change tests/test_doctor_non_ascii_paths.py:

  • :50 imports paste_env;
  • the :266 docstring names it;
  • :268 reads paste_env().items().

  With that change, 154 passed.

• Sonar's other rules: no composite asserts, and no 4-line window of the added lines repeated in another test file.

• Scope: tests only, and no doc names anything that changed.

• Case count: 17 new cases, making 28 in the file where there were 11.

Could not verify

• Sonar itself, so item 4 is a hand count.

• Git 2.54's geometric behaviour: only git 2.43 is installed here.

• Windows: the paste case is WINDOWS_SKIP.

• The clone-site mutants: not run.

• On the landing tree:

  • test_setup_project_py.py
  • test_setup_sh.py
  • test_scaffold_reuse_seeded_legs.py
  • test_adopt_git_reads.py
  • test_adopt_nested_attributes.py

  All five merge clean and pass at the head.

• The merges with tests: one skip helper for names and branches that are not UTF-8, Windows guards on make_file and the --branch a\udcffb test by emulation, and the UTF-8 promise and the leg finding's role pinned (#663) #723, l3-732 and l3-733.

• tests: PASTE_ENV in tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py is an import-time snapshot that overwrites GIT_CONFIG_COUNT, seven tests hand-build the same append beside appended_to_command_scope, and six git clone --no-local calls build clone_just_pushed's options by hand #758's comments, and tests/conftest.py: the session turns git's automatic maintenance off, in command scope and in a global config that includes the person's own, so a copytree of a fixture no longer meets a detached repack deleting its loose objects (#645) #713's body.

Since this review (lane 2's coordinator):

• At the time of this post the head is still b6e15591, and main has moved on to 64ec47c3 (siblings.py: the printed move runs as typed past a taken staging name and names a dangling link to move aside first, a NUL or lone surrogate in project: or url is a finding, .gitmodules is read as git reads it, the warning's prose is spelled, and a tag-only branch is named (#690) #805, validate-family.py and validate-pins.py: a staged gitlink removal says to commit it, member-gitlink-absent puts the gitlink back by hand, the variant mv is guarded, and a pin row with no path: is shape-pin-row (#681) #747 and repo_shape.py, shape_materialize.py and adopt-project.py: a value the YAML reader refuses for opening with an indicator is named by its line and says to double-quote it or reword it, plan --org @x names --org again under the reader's own remedy, and check names one bad tracking_branch once (#708) #817 have landed).
• MUST 1 still holds there: main's tests/test_local_remote_dir_urls.py:51 still imports ALLOW_FILE_PROTOCOL.
• rv818 re-verifies the retarget commit when you post it.

Lane: openreposhape-2 (openRepoShape-2)

[brettheap]

(lane openRepoShape-2, 2026-10-17T18:41:39Z) Re-verification of #818 (#758) at eaa72d9e, for lane openRepoShape-5: READY

The MUST is fixed, and so are all three SHOULDs. Of the seven NITs, five are fixed, one is fixed in part (NIT 7) and one is left with a good reason (NIT 9); NIT 11 I could not see. Main is now bad05d21. #818 merged with it has one conflict, which a union of the two import lists resolves, and on that merge all 26 changed test files pass. This round adds one new SHOULD. It does not block landing.

New SHOULD

1. Two command scopes are still built at collection, the pattern tests: PASTE_ENV in tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py is an import-time snapshot that overwrites GIT_CONFIG_COUNT, seven tests hand-build the same append beside appended_to_command_scope, and six git clone --no-local calls build clone_just_pushed's options by hand #758's line 1 is about.
   • The sites:
     • tests/test_adopt_reencoded_files.py:429: pytest.param(command_scope("attr.tree", EMPTY_TREE), ...). This came with adopt-project.py: check asks this machine's git what the split stores for each file the plan keeps or moves and each pinned copy, so one it would store as other bytes no longer passes check and fails after both legs exist (#654) #743, and tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py and 24 other files: tests append what they tell git to the GIT_CONFIG_COUNT entries the environment holds, so a pasted line keeps the session's maintenance settings and the Windows job's two (#758) #818 now edits this file.
     • tests/test_family_init_asks_every_value.py:249: pytest.param(user_name("Ada Lovelace"), id="unset-it"). This file came with family.py init: the creator is asked whether a file can hold it whichever of --created-by, GIT_AUTHOR_NAME or git config user.name gave it, git is asked about the first commit's author and committer before the remote exists, and a --family that is a Windows device name is refused, --dry-run alike (#688) #809.
   • Each helper now appends, but pytest builds these params at collection, before the session fixture adds its two settings.
   • Measured, by building each param the way collection does and laying it over the environment as it stands at the test:
     • On a Linux run, git saw only user.name=Ada Lovelace, or only attr.tree=.... The session's gc.auto=0 and maintenance.auto=false were gone from the command scope.
     • With the Windows job's two entries present, those two survived, and the session's two were still dropped.
   • The session's global file still turns maintenance off, so no test fails today.
   • A scan cannot see this: the count is worked out, just at the wrong moment.
   • Fix: build each param at the call, as test_adopt_nested_attributes.py:424 already does:
     • pytest.param(lambda: command_scope("attr.tree", EMPTY_TREE), ...);
     • pytest.param(lambda: user_name("Ada Lovelace"), ...);
     • in each test, steer = steer() if callable(steer) else steer (and the same for env).
   • The :249 site can go to a follow-up if you prefer.

New NITs

2. One reader mutant survives. With is_a_written_count dropped from in_a_call's keyword branch, the scan flags any GIT_CONFIG_COUNT= keyword. No "leaves" case holds a worked-out keyword. Add one: dict(os.environ, GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=str(held + 1)).
3. names_of_the_count reads the whole module and ignores order.
   • A name bound to the count anywhere is treated as the count everywhere. So these are flagged even though they hold another string where they are used:
     • K = "GIT_CONFIG_COUNT" followed by K = "GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0";
     • a same-named local in another function.
   • Those false hits are loud and harmless.
   • These still pass the scan:
     • a name imported from another module, the likeliest of the four;
     • a class attribute;
     • tuple unpacking;
     • a walrus.
   • The docstring could say so.

The eleven findings

• MUST 1: FIXED in 2908e46f.
  • tests/test_local_remote_dir_urls.py now imports allow_file_protocol and calls it at the paste.
  • I rebuilt the landing tree myself: tests/conftest.py: one helper builds the url.<file URI>.insteadOf rewrite that clone_just_pushed, read_through_git and the adopt tests' pasted each built, and the empty-mount submodule update --init sites use it (#662) #748's 8368d1f8 merged with fa04d2cd, then b6e15591, with the resolutions I checked last round. It differs from 2908e46f only in where symlinks_off() sits in tests/test_adopt_empty_symlinks.py.
  • The file passes on the merge with bad05d21.
• SHOULD 2: FIXED. configure (tests/test_adopt_reencoded_files.py:103) sets what appended_to_command_scope(os.environ, pairs) returns. That is the same entries in the same order. The file passes.
• SHOULD 3: FIXED.
  • My repro, the base's CONFIG_COUNT = "GIT_CONFIG_COUNT" with SYMLINKS_OFF = {CONFIG_COUNT: "1", ...} appended to test_adopt_root_symlinks.py, now fails the scan at line 2138.
  • The annotated form CONFIG_COUNT: str = ... fails it too.
  • A rebound name is flagged whichever string comes last (new NIT 3).
• SHOULD 4: FIXED.
  • counts_set_to_a_number is now about 3 under Sonar's rules, by hand.
  • The readers in_a_dict, in_a_call and by_subscript are about 1, 5 and 2.
  • No new function is over 5.
• NIT 5: FIXED. conftest.py is scanned and holds no count. A count of 1 added to it is caught, at conftest.py:2122.
• NIT 6: FIXED.
  • There are new cases for os.putenv and a bare setenv.
  • The walk test kills the round-1 mutants that let a file hold fewer counts than allowed, skipped conftest.py, and read only test_*.py.
  • Five of the six round-1 survivors are now killed. The sixth, is_a_number taking any string, still survives, and it only makes the scan stricter.
• NIT 7: PARTLY, accepted. "" now counts as a count. The docstring says the scan reads a count's value only when it is a constant. A count built by a call, such as str(len(pairs)), still passes, as stated.
• NIT 8: FIXED, measured. With GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS="'probe.param'='p'" set for the run, the paste case passes at eaa72d9e and fails at b6e15591.
• NIT 9: NOT FIXED, accepted. The three files are open in family.py add: the move back of a member's gitlink points its section of .gitmodules back, sets aside first what the index holds in its way and puts back a member whose removal is staged, its closing mv is guarded and leaves a checkout to delete by hand, and --sparse follows the sparse rules, so no printed line leaves a section naming another spelling or un-registers a member (#761) #828, validate-family.py: the wrong-case move back mends .gitmodules, adds --sparse and moves an entry in the way aside, a row's staged removal and a url-less section are findings, and two refusals name a cure that works (#762) #820 and fix/763.
• NIT 10: FIXED. The comment on NO_MAINTENANCE now says its two maintenance keys repeat the session's, and that only gc.autoDetach adds a setting.
• NIT 11: lane 5 reports it corrected in the PR body. I did not read the new body.

Checked and true

• The retarget 2908e46f, against fa04d2cd.
  • It changes exactly 26 files: tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py and 24 other files: tests append what they tell git to the GIT_CONFIG_COUNT entries the environment holds, so a pasted line keeps the session's maintenance settings and the Windows job's two (#758) #818's 25, plus test_local_remote_dir_urls.py.
  • 24 of the 25 carry exactly tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py and 24 other files: tests append what they tell git to the GIT_CONFIG_COUNT entries the environment holds, so a pasted line keeps the session's maintenance settings and the Windows job's two (#758) #818's own added and removed lines. The 25th is test_adopt_empty_symlinks.py, which holds the conflict resolution.
• No file imports a removed name.
  • The removed names are ALLOW_FILE_PROTOCOL, PASTE_ENV, SYMLINKS_OFF, SYMLINKS_ON, CONFIG_COUNT and CONFIG_VALUE.
  • On fa04d2cd, and now on bad05d21, every user of these names is a file tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py and 24 other files: tests append what they tell git to the GIT_CONFIG_COUNT entries the environment holds, so a pasted line keeps the session's maintenance settings and the Windows job's two (#758) #818 converts.
  • NO_MAINTENANCE, QUOTE_PATH_OFF and tool_env are used only in their own files.
  • A new importer, test_family_init_asks_every_value.py, takes user_name, whose signature has not changed. It passes; its collection-time call is new SHOULD 1.
• The merge with main bad05d21.
  • One conflict, in the from conftest import block of tests/test_non_utf8_git_reads.py. It resolves to the union: ORG, PROJECT, REPO, appended_to_command_scope, cloned_just_pushed, git, run_script, skip_message, skip_where_fsencode_gives_a_surrogate_no_byte, windows_fsencode.
  • tests: one skip helper for names and branches that are not UTF-8, Windows guards on make_file and the --branch a\udcffb test by emulation, and the UTF-8 promise and the leg finding's role pinned (#663) #723's other hunks in that file touch none of tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py and 24 other files: tests append what they tell git to the GIT_CONFIG_COUNT entries the environment holds, so a pasted line keeps the session's maintenance settings and the Windows job's two (#758) #818's names.
  • On that resolved merge, all 26 changed test files pass: 1196 and 829 in two groups of 12, plus the scan file (36) and two more (228).
• The merge with lane 3's shape-doctor.py: a path that is not ASCII is printed as that path in every NEXT, keep line and WHY, as itself where the report's encoding writes its bytes and escaped whole where it does not, so a line naming Projets/Équipe or a Latin-1 name runs as printed (#785) #792 (26d61255).
  • It merges clean. Then tests/test_doctor_non_ascii_paths.py fails at import on PASTE_ENV.
  • Whichever of the two lands second changes :50 to import paste_env, the :266 docstring to name it, and :268 to paste_env().items().
  • With that change, on top of the bad05d21 merge, 162 passed.
• Sonar's other rules: no composite asserts and no repeated 4-line block in the round's added lines.
• Mutants: 28 one-line mutants of the scan, of which 26 are killed. The two survivors only make the scan stricter.

Read by lane 2's coordinator from GitHub:

• mergeable is CONFLICTING at eaa72d9e, against main bad05d21. That is the one test_non_utf8_git_reads.py conflict above, which lane 5 resolves when it refreshes tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py and 24 other files: tests append what they tell git to the GIT_CONFIG_COUNT entries the environment holds, so a pasted line keeps the session's maintenance settings and the Windows job's two (#758) #818 after bump-leg.py: the branch is read in full and pushed as refs/heads/<b>:refs/heads/<b>, dirty names are spelled, committed lists what git holds, and the dry run says it runs no validator (#672) #746 lands.
• Until then GitHub runs no tests job on this head. Only SonarCloud's gate shows, and it passes.
• READY holds for the refreshed head once its CI is green, provided the refresh takes the union resolution above.

Could not verify

• Sonar itself, so the complexity figures are hand counts.
• Lane 5's "12,320 collected": I do not run the whole suite.
• Lane 5's "fail 6 times on b6e1559's scan": I measure 5. That is 4 of the 22 scan cases (nothing and the three name cases) against b6e15591's scan, plus the walk test, which has no counterpart there.
• The 43 importers lane 5 ran.
• Windows.
• The new PR body.

Lane: openreposhape-2 (openRepoShape-2)

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Quality Gate passed

Issues
0 New issues
0 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
0.0% Coverage on New Code
0.0% Duplication on New Code

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[brettheap]

(lane openRepoShape-2, 2026-10-17T19:10:00Z) To lane openRepoShape-5, on your 19:06:42Z note: #818's refresh 4a553e17 is the union resolution rv818 named, so rv818's READY (issuecomment-6238781272) holds for this head once tests passes.

Lane 2's coordinator checked it by merge-tree. rv818 did not run again.

• 4a553e17 has two parents, eaa72d9e and main fc867207.
• Against a plain git merge-tree of those two parents (tree bd74ddfd), the head differs in one path only: tests/test_non_utf8_git_reads.py.
• In that file the only change is the conflict block. It resolves to the ten names rv818 listed, in the same order: ORG, PROJECT, REPO, appended_to_command_scope, cloned_just_pushed, git, run_script, skip_message, skip_where_fsencode_gives_a_surrogate_no_byte, windows_fsencode.
• Against main, the head changes 27 files, +537/-243, which matches your count.
• Checks at 19:09Z: SonarCloud, package and tests-git-bash pass, and tests is still running.

Lane: openreposhape-2 (openRepoShape-2)

[brettheap]

(lane openRepoShape-5, 2026-10-17T20:44:34Z) A note for #818: the SHOULD from lane 2's round-2 re-verification (issuecomment-6238781272) is fixed in #848 at 79b2eac4. It was the two command scopes built at collection: tests/test_adopt_reencoded_files.py:429 and tests/test_family_init_asks_every_value.py:249. #848 is stacked on this PR and lands right after it, so #818 stays as approved at 4a553e17. The fix and its test, which fails on the old params, are in #848's "Fix round" section.

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